Mardi Gras, gumbo, and zydeco
Subtitle: readings in Louisiana culture
By: edited by Marcia Gaudet, James C. McDonald.
Contributors: Gaudet, Marcia G.; McDonald, James C.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Popular culture -- Louisiana.; Folklore -- Louisiana.; Louisiana -- Civilization.; Louisiana -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-155) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mardi Gras and the media : who's fooling whom? / Barry Jean Ancelet; title: Buffalo Bill and the Mardi Gras Indians / Michael P. Smith; title: Every man a king : world view, social tension, and carnival in New Orleans / Frank De Caro and Tom Ireland; title: Mardi Gras chase / Glen Pitre; title: The New Orleans king cake in southwest Louisiana / Marcia Gaudet; title: Christmas bonfires in south Louisiana : tradition and innovation / Marcia Gaudet; title: The Creole tradition / Michael Tisserand; title: Hidden nation : the Houmas speak / Barbara Sillery; title: Some accounts of witch riding / Patricia K. Rickels; title: Charlene Richard : folk veneration among the Cajuns / Marcia Gaudet; title: Ôte voir ta sacré soutane : anti-clerical humor in French Louisiana / Barry Jean Ancelet; title: The social and symbolic uses of ethnic/regional foodways : Cajuns and crawfish in south Louisiana / C. Paige Gutierrez; title: Is it Cajun, or is it Creole? / Marcia Gaudet.